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* For gallantry, resource & high efficiency as Signal and W/T officer of the flagship in the action and in particular after W/T and V/S equipment had been badly damaged by gunfire. His service on this occasion was invaluable, as also in the following: Night action off Egro Light 1940,
Bismarck Operation 1941, night action in Svaerholt Fjord 1941, Operation MF1 1941, Operations MF2, 3, 4 and 5 1942.

Harcourt,[Sir] Cecil Halliday JepsonSon of Halliday Harcourt, and Grace
Lilian Jepson, of Aune Cross, Kingsbridge, Devon.
Married 1st (1920) Evelyn Suart (?-1950), widow of Gerard Gould, and daughter of Brig.Gen. W.H.
Suart, CMG, RA; no children.
Married 2nd (1953) Stella Janet, widow of Air Cdre
David Waghorn.
Assumed on 17.04.1913 last name of
Harcourt-Morris, which lasted obviously for only a short period.

11.04.1892Bromley, London
-
19.12.1959on the way to St Stephens Hospital, Chelsea district,
London SW3 (formerly of 140 Rivermead Court,
London SW6)

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Officer Commanding 10th, 12th & 15th Cruiser Squadrons (taking
part in landings in North Africa operations leading to the capture of Tunisia;
capture of Pantellaria and Lampedusa,
landings in and capture
of Sicily, and landing at Salerno)

* Special promotion: "Was in command of
"Sirius" Although the ship did not actually reach her objective, she
stood in to the shore in the face of tremendous fire from the batteries, the
wind having shifted and driven back the smoke screen at a critical moment.
After the ship had been sunk and abandoned, he returned to look for the
engineer officer, who was thought to have been left behind. He at once
volunteered on hearing that another operation was in contemplation."

HMS
Revenge (battleship) [missing, presumed killed while on passage
aboard the steamship "Empress of Canada", which was torpedoed and
sunk by an Italian submarine south of Cape Palmas off the coast of Africa]

Commanding
Officer, 801 Squadron FAA [RN Air Station, Hal Far][his Fulmar was last seen to leave the squadron formation, heading in
the direction of Cape Bon; landed on the North African coast & was
captured]

Joined
Cromer Fire Brigade, 1924, and for several years was second-in-command. In the
1930s sales manager for the East Coast Motor Co., of Cromer.

(04.1940)

-

21.06.1941

HMS Paragon (minesweeping base, Hartlepool)
*

Past Worshipful Master of the Freemasons’ Cromer
Baring Lodge.
* in the Apr 1940 Navy List showing at HMS Paragon without a starting date; Febr
1941 shown with starting date 05.10.1940, which is probably the date of his
promotion to A/Cdr.